So do you?

I do!

This happened to me a couple of years ago when I still had my Sporty.

I work on the South side of Reno, NV, decided to take the long way home, being that I live in Fernley NV the way I went is the long way. Rode up to Virginia City, which is twisty straight shot from my office. Having a really nice ride up, no cars behind me enjoying the twisties. Get to the edge of VC and make a left, gonna head down six mile canyon. Which is a rode that mostly only the locals know about around here, really nice during St. Vibes. Head down that rode and come up to highway 50, at the stop sign need to make a left. When I get ready to turn, I get this image in my head that someone is gonna come at me head on. Highway 50 is a two lane road from Carson City to Silver Springs, so about I guess about 20 miles. Almost to Silver Springs and it happens, this little red car all of a sudden pulls into my lane and is passing a small pickup. I downshift and move to the paved shoulder just in time for all of us to pass each other at the same time. The guy in the pickup's eyes were the size of saucers....lol.

See my gut told to to watch out, and my gut was right. I always listen to it! It has saved my life quite a few times for sure!

So tell me your stories, am very interested!

Ride Safe & Take Care!

TD

Glad to hear you came out of that ok. Down here in Texas we have lots of long straight two lane roads that people like to make time on so someone is always passing someone. And with the glaring sun in the desert areas it causes a mirage effect that can make things appear that aren't there and things that are there look invisible. So all too often people are jumping out when there really isn't enough room to pass. I have seen it on just about any road any time.  So my gut tells me to ALWAYS be at most most alert.

Yes always... They are a given tool to help us survive.

GoFur, I agree we should always be alert, but every now and then you just get that gut feeling that tells you to be even more alert or avoid the situation all together. I know there has been several occasions when I have been prepared to go a certain way and for some reason I get a feeling that i shouldn't. Can't say where the feeling comes from or why, but I usually do listen to it. I can't even say that it has been the right decision - because I don't know for sure if something would have gone wrong if I didn't listen to my gut, but so far nothing has gone wrong when I did, so I'm sticking with it!

Those "gut feelings" let us know that we are more aware of the invisible than we would normally think. It shows us there is much more to us and our world than what we can pick up through our senses. To me it makes life magical.

The last major time was an Angel Tree Run a couple of years ago.The group was huge an we had police escorts going to the drop off site.Once all the toys were delivered everybody went separate ways back to a bar for the auction items to raise more funds.The three main routes (1) go back the way we came(2) via Lakeshore Drive (3) straight through the smack dab middle of town....worst of all routes.Long story short when we went out to the bikes and I was asked how I was riding back.My reply was anyway except Lakeshore, infact I picked the worst m/c route straight through town.Got back to the auction site only to hear, rider down onLakeshore Drive by a driver running a redlight turning left infront of the bike.He lost his life doing what he loved, and reminded me of safety issues before I rode off that day in our last conversation....still missing him

I always listen/feel my gut instinct. The one time I didn't came a tragedy.

I'm not a religious man so I'll not talk religion. But I don't know whose voice it was that spoke to me (as if he was standing next to me) back in 1968. But I heard him and I heeded his warning ("Off to your left, get down") and I'm alive because of it. It's not the spookiest thing that ever happened to me but it's right up there on my list. Yep!! I do pay attention. I DO listen.

Glad you listened and you're o.k.
Peace

I think we all do. Especially on a bike, you go with your feelings. I don't think I've had anything quite that clear as what you described. However, I've known in my gut when that vehicle at the intersection was going to pull out in front of me before it did. That did allow me to come almost to a stop in plenty of time to avoid any mishap.

A couple of weeks ago I was riding in the N.C. mountains and it went through my mind about how long it had been sense I had seen a red fox, then about 3 curves latter one was standing in the middle of the road! It ran off and I never came close to hitting it but it sure was weird !

I have had the same experiences. Everybody lets their guard down from time to time. That's our angel tapping us on the shoulder, I believe.

Like a few others, I have to say, that when I don't "listen" to my gut, I end up regretful. And it used to pizz some people off. "What makes you so special, that we should listen to you", kinda thing. But here's an example...

My sister and I were driving down the expressway, when we both heard a very loud hissing noise, followed by her feeling a wobble in the steering wheel. I told her to pull off the road, as one of her "new" tires, was going flat...fast.
She pulled off, but I "felt" like it wasn't  far enough off the road, and I asked her to pull farther off.  So she did.
Then before she could even get her phone out, I told her to come around the car, and sit on the passenger side.
I had this "vision" of something flying off the back of another vehicle. She looked at me funny, but did that, too.
As we were sitting there waiting for the tow-truck, I glance behind the truck, just in time to see a passing S-10,
loaded down with stuff. This "stuff" decided, right at the very moment to be liberated from the bed of the truck,
and came flying off. The first thing was one of those heavy old metal wheelbarrows...

It flew right at us, but something stopped it, inches from the driver side window. All of the other stuff, too light to do any real damage did bounce off the truck.
I went out and grabbed the wheelbarrow, as it was going to cause a "bigger" problem, if I let it lay there. There was a pack of cars coming up the road...
I got it, with only seconds to spare, and no one was really the wiser, as they went on their way.

To this day, my sister always asks me, "what does your gut say about this"? If we're about to do something.

I never really got any "feelings" like you described, when I was on the bike. But there were times, for some unknown reason, I would deviate from a normal route. Intuition? I'd like to think so...

Ride Free
Tweek

My gut feelings are usually on target. My husband will tell people I have ESP though I think this time was one of the more random possibilities at work. I ride along with him and I have to admit I'm a scaredy-cat passenger so I'm always on the watch for anything that might make for a risky situation. We were on our way to a bike night about 20 backroad miles from home. We climbed over a mountain and on the long stretch down hill, were picking up speed. My peripherial vision became sharper than ever as we sped down the straight away. I couldn't hold back that gnawing feeling and even though it was broad daylight I asked my husband to take it easy because of deer possibly jumping out (I've seen two at night on that stretch of road in 20 plus years). He nodded and slowed down a meager 5 mph or so to ease my mind. And then, yup you guessed it, a deer jumped out. We were fine. We had enough time to react. But had I not said something he would have taken advantage of the smooth ride down hill and picked up speed rather than easing back and possibly too close to call with the deer jumping onto the road. Not as amazing as some of the other stories I've seen here but still...

Not sure what causes the "gut" feeling, but I always listen to mine. I think in reading many of the posts above the gut feeling comes from wisdom and experience. After you been around for a while, especially if you do a lot of a certain thing (like riding) you have a feel for what COULD happen and in what situation. So like I said I don't know where these gut feelings come from, but when something inside tells me to do or not do something, I normally listen.

And glad you're ok TearDrops. That was a combination of gut to tell you to be more alert and experience telling you how to handle it. Two very important things that help keep us alive!

Quite often.  Especially when extremely hungry.

gut feeling, deja vu..., sixth sense, keep using which ever medium...suits your purpose......must have worked again back in August.....